Editing Blog

Today my group and I was suppose to be editing . However we were behind on filming because I was late to last class and we lacked materials. The materials we lacked were the cooler and Ice which we ended up not using . We was also behind in the editing process because we were missing a group member . Which means that I had to film the whole film while shania stared inside the film . The class before we had only filmed one shot which made us have a lot to film today . This gave me minimum time to edit and dump all film onto our computer. After finishing filming we returned to class at 10:35 however class ended at 10:50 .Which didn't give us much time to drop our raw footage. Raw footage is any footage that was previously filmed being that the film isn't edited .
However once making it to class we received some devastating news.The news was that the computer editing software was down . Pinnacle Studios is software which is automatically downloaded on our computers in class . At the beginning of the year our teacher gave a us a tutorial on how to edit . Including the opening of a folder to store footage to exporting your project. The tutorial gave the class all the necessities to make our greatest commercials. However today when it was time to put our knowledge to the test our computers were not up to the task . First many of the computers took longer than expected time to come up . Such as our Computer since we arrived at 10:35 we only had 15 mins to dump and import. The computer took 10 of those minutes just to load to our login screen.
This resulted in my group members and I not being able to edit until next class.
The editing crisis made it grateful that i shot extra film because with the extra footage we used our time wisely . Since the editing was not able to happen we could only try to dump our footage into our folder . Dumping is when you take your footage off your camera on to a computer. The editing and filming process was quiet difficult for my group for many reasons . One reason is our lack of materials pushed out filming back which delayed our editing . This caused us to shoot most of our film on Monday instead of Thursday . Another reason was our missing group member which added more work to shania and I . lastly , Our software being down on the computer . All thest reasons contributed to our hetic editing process

Filming Process

The filming process was quit hectic . My Group and I ran into numerous of problems including missing materials and disagreeing with what should be next . We mostly forgot that filming was Thursday .Materials was a main problem , because we left everything at home. We were suppose to have Pure life water bottles because our slogan is water brings life to Fort Lauderdale High school. Plus the water bottles are our main topic of the commercial.  We was also missing the cooler which was suppose to be filled with water when splashing the L . We had a water bottle however it wasn't big enough to splash the L on the senior Patio. Also the L on the student patio dried pretty quickly for us to be using such a small thing of water . Now we choose to create a list for Monday filming so we wont miss any materials .We had numerous missing Materials which we are going to have to make up for on Monday.
As we had numerous of missing materials we started to have disagreements about our original story bored . Once we started to filming we noticed how hard it had gotten to film certain parts of our story board without having the water . So we changed the first story board to an establishing shot . Then we were trying to splash the L and get the right film , However we didn't have enough water . So we decided that we'll do the splashing of  the L on Monday  and everything else on Monday. That includes the passing of the water to students and finishing the dumping of our film. Most of our film production had to get pushed back to Monday. This would only tighten our schedule for editing our commercial . As missing materials wasn't the only thing that made our filming process but our disagreements on the next part of our commercial .
My group and I disagreed largely on what should go next being that we was missing materials. We changed our original first two person shot to an establishing shit of our senior Patio. Next we came to a halt because we had ran out of "Nestle Pure Life " which is the water brand were promoting . so we ended using one bottle and taking the label off and replacing the labels of the other bottles we had . So , our next shot was shania jumping and someone throwing the water to her . We had to practice this a couple of times because she had to get use to catching a bottle water. After that our new storyboard became easy to figuring out the next parts . However our lack of materials still played a part of how we would continue to create our follow up scenes . Our filming process was very difficult and it took us 2 days to complete unlike other groups. After we passed most of obstacles the filming process got entirely easier .

Story Board for commercial

My group has decided for the commercial to start off with an FLHS, Fort Lauderdale High, cheer leader. The cheer leader will look sad, “dead”, and will then drink the pure life water and be “brought back to life”. This cheer leader will then give the water to an FLHS student looking “dead” and will take a sip of the pure life water and be “brought back to life” as well. This process will be repeated two more times with the cheer leader giving the water bottle to a “dead” looking FLHS guidance counselor and administrator. When they get the pure life water bottle they will the be “brought back to life as well. For the final scene we will splash the Flying L sign on our senior patio with pure life water and say “Pure life brings life to Fort Lauderdale High”. For the first scene with the cheer leader drinking the water we will use a hand held and medium shot. For the second, third and fourth scene we will use a hand-held shot, wide shot and a two-shot. For the last scene we will use a high angle and a wide shot to show the whole Flying L symbol and the water being thrown. All scenes except for the last one will have a score sound track to enhance the commercial and engage the audience, while the last scene will have dialogue.

Editing Blog Lesson

To begin when checking out a camera you fill out a sheet for you and your group. When starting to edit camera footage you begin by opening pinnacle studios. However before editing , You create a folder to store the footage on the computer . The footage from your camera can be uploaded using a SD reader.Usually when uploaded from the SD card reader the footage will be stored in the DCIM folder . Although sometimes the footage may not be available in the DCIM folder and might be found when going to private , then AVICHD , and then go to stream to find any footage that is not in the DCIM folder . In order to dump the footage on to the computer you must highlight the footage them move it to a folder . You must use the same computer to edit each time when editing . Using the same computer is useful because pinnacle studies typically do not recognize jump drives and typically only recognizes desktop files .
 If in a group you will only be able to use one log in which would store the edits . Which  means when logging into pinnacle studies for the first time you have to set a constant group members log in . you have to begin by importing the footage from your computer to pinnacle studies. You press the + sign which gives you a drop down option of all the folders on the computer. Which means you might want to import all footage taken that day . Only all footage that is checked will be imported after clicking start import. Raw footage will probably be the only thing imported which is anything that was previously filmed . The raw footage would be imported into the AV track 2 . The first AV track is titles while the third AV track is sound . Expand the picture by using the numbers at the bottom or even double click the picture . 
Editing varies of enhancement could include cutting a clip by clicking the razor  blade. If you want to add transitions or effects , right click on the clip then it will open effects editor to do transitions or effects which include changing colors. If wanting to edit the title you must press the uppercase T . A screen will pop up which gives you the ability to edit the color and font . When saving your edits you must save a copy to your desktop by going to file and saving it to your folder . However when your completely done you can export your project by making sure to save it as impeg 4 and full file size . Make sure to name the footage after your project name .

Planning Blog for water commercial

Props

• Pure life water because it is the brand of water for the commercial. That is the only prop that we need for this commercial to work. 

Costumes 

• One of my team mates, Shania, will wear their cheer uniform because they are going to be apart of the commercial. 
• Me and the other team mate, Chad will wear Fort Lauderdale High School gear in order to represent the school in the commercial. 
• While the other people in the video will wear their typical school clothes. That will create a more realistic scene than having everyone wearing the same clothes, making it look rehearsed.

Schedule

• This class was a period to create our plans such as: costumes, props and the ideas of what we are going to do for the commercial. 
• Next class period we make storyboards
• After that we go through the filming process
• Then Finally we go through the editing phase

Location 

• Start:  the senior patio to display the water on the Flying L
• next: the hall way which is the exchange of water from students 
• next : the guidance office the exchange of water to a guidance counselor 
• next : the class room which is the exchange of water between teacher and student

Back up plan 

• if it begins  raining we will move the picture of the water to the stairway in front of the media center 
• if the guidance arent willing to participate well ask other administration 
• if students are missing well just replace them with other students 

research blog : commercial conventions

My group and I have decided to do a commercial on pure life water . we began research by searching up similarities in water commercials . We noticed that every commercial included water and mostly people. However most commercials only featured the condensation from the water bottle or even just a display of the water bottle. An example would be the fiji commercial . The fiji commercial only included the bottle with features of the fiji island. Instead of fiji we decided on pure life because we wanted to create a main idea that water brings life to Fort Lauderdale high school . 

We also noticed that many commercials included people quenching their thirst . In many videos Water is used as a source of energy to people working out or even just normal day to day life . In some videos water is just represented as droplets . However water is mostly thought to be thirst quencher that satisfies people thirst.

  

Introductory

Hey , my name is Kaliyah However all my friends call me liyah. I am In 11th grade at Fort Lauderdale High school. I intend to graduate next year. My education is very important to me i have always assumed that knowledge is power and my mom continuously push me to succeed in my academics.

Right now my schedule is pretty busy . i have 5 Aice Cambridge classes including Aice marine , Aice physical education, Aice English,Aice thinking skills , and Aice media all in efforts to get my Aice diploma . The other 3 classes are honor classes which include United States history , leadership ,and study hall. Leadership is my favorite because I am involved in the club student government. I am actually the historian of class of 2021 which makes me in charge of all communication with the student body.

Something else i enjoy is hanging with family and friends i live with my mom and dog named KOKO  . My friends always come over , sometimes they bring their dogs over and we have a play date . A lot of times on the weekend my friends and I hang out at the movies or bowling alley  . we all love to have fun together and try new things .  I have a a lot of interest this is just a snippet of my life.